<p>I know medical schools require a year of English and don't accept AP credit. Do the english courses have to be ENC 1101 and ENC 1102? If not, what other english classes can I take? For example, UCF offers Medical Writing and Research Writing (both are ENC classes), could I take these and use my credit for ENC 1101 and 1102 instead?</p>
<p>@jason, that’s what I’m doing (taking advanced Tech Writing course) instead of freshman English.</p>
<p>“medical schools … don’t accept AP credit”</p>
<p>AP credit is “accepted” or not by your undergraduate institution. At most MSs, if it is on your transcript as a replacement for a specific course, then they have no problem with it. They may also want you to follow it up with a higher level course, but to make the blanket statement that “medical schools don’t accept AP credit” is not correct.</p>
<p>Really? Because everything I’ve read on here, IIRC, said I’d have to take Lang/Chem/Phy/etc in college again regardless of my AP scores (even if they weren’t apart of my major) because medical schools (with a couple exceptions) don’t accept AP credit.</p>
<p>If I’m wrong and I can use my credit from my Lang exam and it be OK for medical school, I’m not gonna take either course lol. I’ll just take a semester of speech instead and be done with my gen eds.</p>
<p>Son took 17 AP courses in high school. Scored 4s and 5s. His maticulating uni took 5 or 6 courses. Those being chem, bio, physics, calc, and english. He used them and took harder ones. </p>
<p>All the med schools he applied to (24) accepted his higher ones as meeting the pre-reqs and his english he used a philosophy and another history course as writing intensive since there are no eng 101 classes at his uni. There was a writing seminar but he did not use it when you fill out the secondaries for what pre-req goes where.</p>
<p>No questions regarding pre-reqs during his interviews either. And he did take some during summer sessions. And not at his uni either, they don’t offer summer school. Did ask why he took some summer school courses far away from home, 3500+ miles away, but he wanted an A & P class that allowed undergrads to use cadavers versus virtual labs. Also needed different start dates since his home institution let out later than most local schools and he could take a class in a language not offered locally, Navajo.</p>
<p>Worked out great for him.</p>
<p>Was good enough to garner numerous interviews, including Harvard.</p>
<p>Kat
caveat: some of the things he did do, don’t necessarily mesh up with that of typical pre-med students. Was a walk-on for D1 football, worked during the off season, took his pre-reqs wherever he could fit them in, did not “manage” his GPA…took whatever he wanted for 4 years, took his GMAT before his MCAT, his research was in biostats at Harvard and econ at Yale for 2 different summers…still working on plant research as we speak even though he has started med school!</p>
<p>So I can use philosophy courses instead of ENC 1101 and 2 for my english requirement for med school? If you can’t tell, I really don’t want to take ENC 1101 and 2 in college…</p>
<p>He did not take an intro philosophy course or an intro history course rather they were upper division philosophy/history courses. And he used those to satisfy the english requirement. He used upper division biochem and genetics courses to satisfy the bio requirement, def eq and linear algebra to satisfy the math…</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>This is confusing…</p>
<p>The English requirement varies by med school, bcos it varies by college. All meed schools will accept Frosh Writing/English courses. Others will accept a course with a strong writing component to it since many colleges have different GE requirements and fulfill them in different ways. For example, one college offers an integrated honors Frosh Writing/History course – two courses worth of material for 6 units – that fulfills both the college’s writing and history requirements. While the course is not titled ‘English’ (or history, for that matter) the premed Committee at the college denotes that the integrated course fulfills the college’s Core English requirement; thus, it is accepted by med/grad school.</p>
<p>The msar typically says, English or ‘intensive writing course’.</p>
<p>Ok that makes sense, thank you. I’ll probably just go with my original plan since I can’t use my AP credits for med school purposes.</p>